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This is now my headcannon as well! I love witcher 1, and siegfried was one of my favourite characters! I was sad that he did not make a reappearance in the third game, but seeing what became of the order, maybe it's better that way. If one assumes that he really is the lonely champion, it would be a nice form of closure for such a formidable character!

Something else i noticed, related to the lonely champion as a card:

- he destroys firesworn tokens - which could be seen as him not agreeing with the fanatics, and what became of the order.

- as op rightly remarked, the knight is surrounded by drowners. You know who else was surrounded by drowners when first encountered? - siegfried. (He battled against them with geralt on the way to the basilisk in the sewers).

Okay I wanna talk about Siegfried of Denesle for a hot second (especially in Gwent)

(gif by @thirstyforred​ )

Short background to Siegfried for all those that didn’t play the first game: Siegfried, son of Sir Eyck of Denesle, joined the Order of the Flaming Rose, the military organisation rooted in the Eternal Fire belief, when his father refused to take coin for hunting monsters after his mother fell gravely ill. Though he renounced his father he still followed a strict knightly code to do good and defend the weak. He felt that, although sometimes drastic, the Order would give him that opportunity. What he didn’t know was that the order was rotten to its core and the Grand Master Jacques de Aldersberg cooperated with the criminal organisation Salamandra to make money by producing the drug Fisstech and produce mutants - not the witcher kind though, those mutants were barely human anymore, mangled mounts of flesh made to kill and be killed.

In The Witcher 1 you have the possibility to support the order, but what this mostly looks like is supporting Siegfried. In the end he will see that the order is not all that he was promised it would be. He is named the next Grand Master by king Foltest and assissts Geralt with getting to de Aldersberg to stop him for once and all.

In The Witcher 2, if you have chosen the Order path in Witcher 1, you can meet him again. He will help you get inside Loc Muinne, where an important political summit takes place. Even more importantly though is that he will help Geralt and Vernon Roche to keep the heir to the Temerian throne, little Anaïs La Valette, out of king Radovid’s hands.

The big mystery however is that he does not show up in The Witcher 3. In one DLC you can get the dialogue choice to mention him once to shame a former order member, but that’s it. So what happened? The order had been gifted lands by king Radovid between Witcher 1 and 2, that’s why they stood as his private army in 2. In 3 however their assets had been seized and the Order been disbanded. The members either joined the Witch Hunters or turned to organized crime and banditry, producing fisstech. Absolutely not a word to be found of what became of the Grand Master. You can however find a note on a noticeboard written by a “Siegfried de Löwe” (Löwe=lion) basically threatening villagers if they didn’t pay protection money. It is unclear in-game if this is some other Siegfried or the same.

I will however argue on the basis of the Gwent standalone game that he is not, and even more important, he is doing morally better than the twisted organisation the order became.

The first big indicator for me is that he is a neutral card. All other order members are of the Syndicate faction, meaning they have an association with crime.

Next are his categories. “Human, Knight”. All units that have an association with the Eternal Fire or the Order have “Firesworn” and therefore marks them as belonging to the thus named religiously fanatic syndicate faction.

Then there lastly is his deploy ability “Purify all other units”. This means that all positive and negative effects are removed from your and your opponents units. Of course to sensibly use this ability you’d use it when your own units have mostly negative effects (like bleeding, or having their abilities locked) and your opponent having mostly positive effects (i.e. shield or defender). He is by far of course not the only unit that has a variant of the purify ability, but he has the only one that affects the whole board, giving a certain weight to his “purity”.

There are arguments that could counter this, I want to specifically mention the Philippa Eilhart cards (one is Northern Realms, the other Syndicate), because they show her at different stages of her story, so of course this Siegfried card could just be early-on Siegfried and at some point we will get a Siegfried: De Löwe card or something.

Another point could be, that such a card had to be made neutral (for example a lot of the Witcher cards are neutral as well as Yen and Ciri cards)

I do however have a funny little headcanon.

See this guy?

(gif by @thirstyforred​ of course)

This card is called Lonely Champion with the following flavour text: “So long as he continues the righteous fight the Order and its flame endure.” It shows him surrounded by drowners, run of the mill monsters, not involved with crime. So though he is a Firesworn unit, he is not Not Like The Others. Plus he has the immunity ability.

I like to imagine that this is Siegfried after having the order ripped out under him by Radovid, trying to fight the righteous fight on his own, adhering as the last one to the knightly values he wanted and expected the Order to incorporate.

Alright, thank you for reading! I know Witcher 1 is an … aged game, but if you should ever feel like diving into the games, keep in mind that you can only meet Siegfried if you play the first game! To all my fellow Gwent and Witcher 1 enthusiast: I would love to read your thoughts!

I feel attacked.

when someone points out your fave is like twice+ your age

I'm trying to teach myself how to draw detlaff, who i find very difficult to 'get right', and while i was leaving my comfortzone, i thought, "why not go all the way and add colour?".

It probably doesn't look like much in this vast sea of fanart, but for me it is quite an improvement. :) colouring things always scares me terribly - almost as much as uploading!

And, for some reason, he kind of looks like bela lugosi?

It was just thr introductory lecture, so not paying too much attention should be fine, right? Right.

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My handwriting is atrocious.

vilf (villain I'd like to fuck)

I feel so validated thank GOD.

It’s been 2 days and now I can say with absolute certainty that the main take from the Spider-Man trailer is finding out that we all had a giant crush on Alfred Molina as Doc Ock and we all thought we were weird. Turns out it’s the most common experience ever and now we can all thirst freely and it’s✨beautiful✨

Always. :)

y’all… u dont understand how much writing in the tags of someone’s creation means to them.. whether it’s fanart, a graphic, fanfic..,, there’s a 99% chance that person looks through their tags and a single opinionated comment in the tags can rlly brighten their day it’s just a rlly wonderful thing to see

Gabriel Ferrier (1847-1914)

Moonlit Dreams ,1874

He angrey.

Don't mind the bunny, that was for practice. :)

yeah i use this pro gamer technique called "hitting every single button frantically with my little raccoon hands until something happens" you probably wouldn't get it it's really advanced

I decided to upload it as is, since I'm completely and hopelessly stuck :'D

It may not be perfect, but that is fine. It's my first digital painting in years, and I'm even sharing it. Even if it gets lost in the current of amazing art out there, it's still a big victory for me. :3

Next time I'll do a few tutorials first though, I guess^^

"A merchant?" - "Of spices."

Roche, why are you so hard to draw?

This is my first attempt at digital art in years, and of course i just blindly dived into it without a plan and now i'm stuck. Should i try some more? Or just tidy it up a bit and upload as is? I don't know what to do. ._.

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Anyone else wait for geralt to strut on stage during ukraines performance?

Karl Heisenberg is Steampunk-Yeehaw-Astarion, change my mind.

When senpai notices you ♥

Sorry for flooding your notifications, but your art is so beautiful, i have to like everything!!!!

Thank you! :)

not to be a freak on main, but the whole concept of beckett is unbelievable. gangrels are presented as wild, beastly vampires who run amok and often cant control themselves and yet the first gangrel you meet in the game is fucking BECKETT with a huge dick energy rivalling every other vampires combined. this man wears sunglasses in the dark, has permanent beast eyes cause why not, has an abundance of chest hair so great it pokes out the eye of the antediluvians in torpor and a vocabulary to match his pussywetting beast energies. 

the game tried to put him to the side and for what. all the players  could do is salivate while muttering “daddy” whenever he was onscreen. how many would run away with him, hm? given that chance id ride that man to his second death next to the destroyed sabbat warehouse

Why must i always be so afraid to share my art, this is horrible... so many people on here make such amazing art. Why can't i just enjoy it without feeling like everything is a competition?

Me over here in Europe watching the news right now like

Pieces of Viking pottery with traces of cat and dog paws, seen at the Musée de Normandie in Caen Castle

“So back in the day pets already ruined their owner’s artwork.” - My sis who took the photo

The memories

from their crew to yours

Be a bad bitch with a warm heart. It's not cute to be rude and disrespectful. You can be confident, have no tolerance for insults and still be gentle and kind to people who deserve it. This is the dream combination that needs to be mastered.

There aren't that many of you, but my social storagespace is limited anyway :)

internet friends are kinda like illegally downloaded friends. you don’t get the physical copy but you still get all the great content

I find that there is a lack of Charles on here.

Whenever I look at other peoples art online I feel so tereibly inferior... but I think this didn't turn out so bad. :)

Most loyal of the lot of us.

I played around with watercolour for the first time in ages, think it turned out quite well. :)

Behold - a greasy man.